4 A Really, Really Bad Situation

4. A REALLY, REALLY BAD SITUATION 'Oh for Thor's sake, oh for Thor's sake…' cried Hiccup, looking desperately around him. But there was no sign of Camicazi. Just the silent mists, and below them… why, below them, there could be ANYTHING down there in the water. It could be Darkbreathers, that liked to drag their victims underneath the water and suck out their blood. It could be Sharkworms, that killed with their foot-long fangs, or grabbed a take-away of a dangling limb, and swam on. 'Where is she? Where is she? Where is she?' Fishlegs kept repeating, as if Hiccup knew the answer. One terrified minute passed. And then Fishlegs, too, screamed, and was dragged under, out of Hiccup's arms.

4. “哦，看在托尔的份上，哦，看在托尔的份上……”小嗝嗝绝望地环顾四周，喊道。 但没有卡米卡齐的踪迹。 只有寂静的薄雾，在薄雾下面……啊，在薄雾下面，水里可能有什么东西。 可能是黑暗呼吸者，喜欢把受害者拖到水下吸出他们的血。 它可能是鲨鱼蠕虫，用它们一英尺长的毒牙杀人，或者抓住一个摇晃的肢体，然后继续游。 “她在哪儿？”她在哪里？ 她在哪儿？”鱼腿不停地重复，好像Hiccup知道答案似的。 恐惧的一分钟过去了。 接着，鱼腿也尖叫起来，从嗝嗝的怀里被拖了下去。

'Fishlegs!' yelled Hiccup. Hiccup was alone in the cold grey ocean. Never had his poor flapping feet felt so vulnerable. There was nothing he could do. He could not run, or fly away (although Toothless was valiantly trying to haul him out of the water by the back of his waistcoat). And then he felt the first searching nibble on his ankle… Hiccup screamed, and tried, clumsily, to splash forward. But whatever-it-was took a firm grip on his leg and pulled him underwater. Hiccup just had time to take a big lungful of air. The water around him turned swiftly from green to grey to black as he was dragged down into the sea. So this is it… thought Hiccup… as he went deeper still… This is what it is like to die… Just as his lungs were about to burst, he was pulled back the other way up, the water turned from black to grey to green to white again, and he was hauled out of the sea and into the sky. Hiccup was being carried upside-down through the air by a gigantic dragon, with a wingspan of about seven metres.

“Fishlegs !嗝嗝喊道。 小嗝嗝独自在冰冷的灰色海洋里。 他可怜的拍打着的脚从来没有感到如此脆弱过。 他什么也做不了。 他跑不动，也飞不动（虽然无牙勇敢地拽着他的马甲，想把他从水里拉出来）。 就在这时，他感到有人在咬他的脚踝……小嗝嗝尖叫起来，笨拙地挣扎着向前游去。 但不管它是什么，它紧紧地抓住了他的腿，把他拖到了水下。 小嗝嗝刚好有时间深吸一口气。 当他被拖进海里时，他周围的水迅速从绿色变成灰色再变成黑色。 “原来是这样的，”小嗝嗝想，“越潜越深，”“这就是死亡的感觉……就在他的肺快要爆裂的时候，他被从另一个方向拉了上来，水又从黑色变成了灰色，又变成了绿色，然后又变成了白色，他被拉出了大海，升上了天空。” 小嗝嗝被一条翼展约7米的巨龙倒挂在空中。

All around him, with great rasping shrieks, a whole pack of the creatures was leaping out of the sea, shooting upwards as if they were arrows being shot out of Neptune's bow. The dragon holding Hiccup was flying so low that Hiccup's fingers were scraping the surface of the water. It swung him upwards as if he were a piece of mackerel and let him go, sending Hiccup cartwheeling through the air, and as he was JUST about to hit the sea, another dragon dived and caught him, this time by the arms. Out of the corner of his eye, Hiccup could see Fishlegs and Camicazi being carried by other dragons in the pack in a similar fashion. He tipped his head upwards to try and see what had captured them. It was Raptortongues.

在他的周围，伴随着刺耳的尖叫，一群生物从海里跳出来，向上射出，仿佛是海神的弓射出的箭。 抱着嗝嗝的龙飞得很低，嗝嗝的手指都擦到了水面。 它把小嗝嗝像一条鲭鱼一样甩了起来，又把他甩了出去，小嗝嗝在空中翻了个筋斗，就在他要落到海里的时候，另一条龙跳入水中，抓住了他的胳膊。 从眼角的余光，嗝嗝可以看到鱼腿和卡米卡齐被其他龙以类似的方式驮着。 他抬起头，想看看是什么抓住了他们。 是迅猛龙的舌头。

Raptortongues are most peculiar. They look like perfectly normal dragons that have been accidentally stepped on by a giant, and squashed flat as a pancake. They are often used by Vikings to spy on enemy Tribes, because they can fly low and swift and silent over enemy territory without anyone realising they are there.

迅猛龙的舌头是最奇特的。 它们看起来就像完全正常的龙，被巨人不小心踩了一脚，然后像煎饼一样压扁了。 他们经常被维京人用来监视敌方部落，因为他们可以在没有人意识到他们的情况下在敌方领土上低空、迅速和无声地飞行。